Stats on Closing the Wage Gap

If the annual wage gap were eliminated, on average, a working woman in Wyoming would have enough money for:

• 30.5 more months of child care;

• Nearly four years of tuition and fees for a four-year public university, or the full cost of tuition and fees at a two-year community college;

• Approximately 133 more weeks of food for her family (2.6 years’ worth);

• 14.6 more months of mortgage and utilities payments; or

• More than 24 additional months of rent.

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Source: National Partnership for Women and Families Wyoming Women and the Wage Gap